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Greenpower 2023

09/10/2023 RotaryRacer

Greenpower International Final 2019 Silverstone

17/10/2019 RotaryRacer

Photos courtesy of Jeff Gendall

Castle Combe - 16th September 2018

Castle Combe - 16th September 2018

16/09/2018 RotaryRacer

The Greenpower Castle Combe heat - Sunday 16th September 2018

The Greenpower Goodwood heat - Sunday 10th June 2018

Goodwood - 10th June 2018

10/06/2018 RotaryRacer

The Greenpower Goodwood heat - Sunday 10th June 2018

RR10 Build

27/11/2016 RotaryRacer

Final 2015

11/10/2015 

The Greenpower National Final 2015

Dunsfold Heat 2015

20/09/2015 

Rockingham Heat 2015

01/07/2015 

1st, 4th, 2nd and the siemens digital award

Merryfield 2015

20/06/2015 

F24 race 1, 1st F24 race 2, 4th F24+ 2nd

Merryfield 2015

20/06/2015 RotaryRacer

Photos taken by Steve & Joe Melling

Goodwood Heat 2015

14/06/2015 

2nd in F24 race 1, 1st in F24 race 2

Group discussion

Goodwood Heat 2015

14/06/2015 RotaryRacer

Photos taken by Steve & Joe Melling

Final 2014

12/10/2014 

Castle Combe 2014

28/09/2014 

28th September 2014, Castle Combe

Dunsfold 2014

21/09/2014 

Merryfield 2014

19/07/2014 

F24+ 2nd Place

Goodwood 9th June 2014

08/06/2014 

Making the simualtors "car"

Driving simulator work and general development

15/05/2014 GpDrivingSim

We designed and then build and developed a Greenpower car driving simulator.

New joystick in production

General Work

12/05/2014 

Some general work on the car

Soliding components on the first board

GpSpeed development and building

10/05/2014 

We designed and then built 5 Greenpower Speed controllers for the various teams at CSS.

The boost voltage controller

After the race fixing and testing

01/11/2013 

We won !

Goodwood Final 2013

13/10/2013 RotaryRacer

Rotary Racer manage to win for the fourth time at the national Greenpower final!

Smoothing off the body

Fixing and Development Work

02/10/2013 

Fixing the car after the final and some development work.

The start

Castle Combe 2013

22/09/2013 

Excellent race were we managed second. The car is now starting to go well.

Merryfield 2013

14/09/2013 

The first win for the new car !

Development work RR9

10/09/2013 

Some development work on RR9

Racing

Rockingham 2013

08/07/2013 

An F24+ only race. The car is going better now, nearrly up with the head of the race.

Pitstops

Goodwood Southern Regional Heat 2013

09/06/2013 

We made it ! The car raced its first couple of races and managed a podium 3rd place in F24+

Checking things

Some more work on the car

18/05/2013 

Work in the DT labs

The rollbar parts

Work On RR9

20/04/2013 

Some work on RR9

Scrutineering

Final 2012

16/10/2012 

National champions 3rd time running

Going out to practise

Castle Combe 2012

07/10/2012 

1st place F24, 3rd place F24+

Tracking the PCB for the new speed controller

Work on car

25/09/2012 

Some pictures of general work on the car

Merryfield 2012

20/09/2012 

Goodwood 2012

12/06/2012 

The back of our overalls.

Silverstone - Corporate Challenge 2012

06/05/2012 

Weighing the Car

Greenpower Test day and Rotary Club festival

05/05/2012 

Bloodhound SSC Education Centre Opening

31/10/2011 

We were asked to show the cars at the Bloodhound SSC education centre opening day. Quite a lot of local schools and youth organisations attended. So we tried to promote Greenpower and what its about to them. We also managed to get ourselves on the local BBC points west program and two of the students managed to blag a run in the Bloodhound SSC VWT.

R-Pods

National Final 2011

17/10/2011 

To complete a suberb year for the Rotary Racer team we managed to win the national final even carrying the dreaded "1".

The Wind Tunnel

11/10/2011 

Thanks to the Rotary Club and the older lads of the Rotary Racer team we now have a wind tunnel !

Castle Combe

11/10/2011 

An excellent race, where we won, in a hot and sunny October!

What a hat !

Merryfield: more

25/09/2011 

Some more pictures from Merryfield

Driver change

Merryfield 2011

23/09/2011 

Merryfield was day of contrasting weather conditions, bright clear sun & howling wind when the showers came along. We finished the race as winners :)

Silverstone - The Corporate Challange

23/09/2011 

This was the first time we had been to Silverstone. An excellent day, first time out with the new batteries, We finished 3rd

Dunsfold 2011

29/06/2011 

The Dunsfold race in the hot sunshine. An hard and exciting race where we managed to get 1st place breaking the Dunsfold mileage record by 8% on the newer lower powered batteries.

The Chipping Sodbury Festival Parade

29/06/2011 

We took part in the annual Chipping Sodbury Festival with the TPM team

Its raining, heavily

Goodwood June

15/06/2011 

The southern counties race in the rain. We managed to get a first place.

The electronivs

Car Inards

14/06/2011 

Measuring the old one

Making the new adjustable steering column

14/06/2011 

Getting ready in the masive Silverstone pit area

Corporate Challenge 2011

02/05/2011 

3rd place at a windy Silverstone

Working out how too implement the new rear end

Winter work and Test day

02/05/2011 

Making the trestles

Winter Work

02/05/2011 

2010 GP Final (Martins photos)

18/10/2010 

Various photos Taken at the 2010 GreenPower Final @ Goodwood

Pitstop Dawn

Pitstop Poses

27/09/2010 

A selection of PitStop poses

We built a wheel at home to test the spoke lengths

Making the new smaller wheels

24/09/2010 

We decided to build the new 16inch wheels ourselves, it is an engineering challenge after all ! All team members were involved.

Making the new car body

04/09/2010 

Right hand side view (took impact)

Incident photos

30/06/2010 

This includes tilt & push tests, & quick cosmetic repairs

Fitting new wheel arches ready for shaping

Some Work on the car for 2010

18/06/2010 

Corporate Challenge 2010

11/05/2010 

3rd Place! Just infront of Brian, and behind Zebeedi and Electrode.

Motor and Battery test rig

Equipment

17/03/2010 

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2009/2010 Drivers

09/03/2010 

Here are the new mugshots of the drivers

Bloodhound Launch

24/11/2009 

Garath and Dan at UWE Bloodhound 1K club event

Bloodhound Events

24/11/2009 

Bloodhound SSC kindly invited us to three of their events in Bristol where we tried to show what Greenpower is all about.

Greenpower National Final 2009

01/11/2009 

Some more pictures from the Greenpower National final

2009 Night before the Final

21/10/2009 

Last minute aerodynamic simulations

The Greenpower National Final 2009 where we won !!

19/10/2009 

Dunsfold 2009

28/09/2009 

Where we won !

Dunsfold 2009

28/09/2009 

Where we won !

Getting ready for Dunsfold

28/09/2009 

Checking the seating position

Castle Combe 2009

15/09/2009 

The 2009 Castle Combe race where we won !

The wheel nuts need tightening

Goodwood Southern Heat

15/07/2009 

Some pictures of the Goodwood Southern heat. This was the first race for RR8. It had just been finished, but was un-tested and the paint was still wet !

05 July Progress ............

05/07/2009 

Goodwood, Corporate Challange 2009

27/04/2009 

Money is tight: Dismantling an older Rotary Racer

Rotary Racer 8 - Design and Build

29/01/2009 

Some photos of the design/build of Rotary Racer 8

Goodwood Final 2008 - Celebration Photos

22/10/2008 

Some photos of the car and drivers after the second place success at Goodwood in 2008

Goodwood Final 2008

20/10/2008 

The Goodwood national final were Rotary racer won second place !

Dunsfold (Martins photos)

20/10/2008 

Strategy meeting, The night before the final

20/10/2008 

:-)

2008 Final @ Goodwood

20/10/2008 

(Martins photos)

Dan and Martin welding the motor mounting plates

Dunsfold Park: Rotary Racer

30/09/2008 

Getting ready for the Dunsfold Park race and some shots from the race which we won.

Soldering circuit boards

25/07/2008 

Kar Kapers 2008-07-19

20/07/2008 

The Kar Kapers event at Filton.

Sponser logo's

06/07/2008 

Close up shots of some sponser logo's

Celebrating success

06/07/2008 

Castle Coombe 2008 - Terrys Pics

23/06/2008 

Pictures from the Castle Coombe regional heat where we won !

Pulling away from the starting grid

Castle Combe 2008 (Martin's photos)

23/06/2008 

Fitting filling around the driver

Testing at Kemble Airfield 2008-06-10

11/06/2008 

We tested the cars aerodynamics and tried adding bits to improve the performance.

Starting with a sheet

Models & wind tunnel

28/04/2008 

These are some of the photos we took during the making & testing of various new car ideas. They were tested in December 2006 at the UWE wind tunnel. (Photos in reverse order)

Goodwood - 2008

28/04/2008 

Some pictures of the testing for Goodwood and from the Goodwood race itself.

The drivering team less one

Castle Combe 2007

28/04/2008 

A few photos from Castle Combe 2007

Castle Combe Awards 2007

28/04/2008 

Some photos of the award ceremony at Castle Combe 2007

Dan

2008 Drivers

28/04/2008 

Some driver 'mugshots'

Castle Combe Pictures

28/04/2008 

Some pictures of Rotary Racer from Castle Coombe

Rotary Racer 7 - 2008

25/04/2008 

Some pictures of the Rotary Racer 7 during construction

Rotary Racer 7 - Completed Car - 2008

25/04/2008 

The completed Rotary Racer 7 car (just about !)

Car Computer and Motor Test rig

23/04/2008